Who Was in My Room Last Night? · Butthole Surfers

146 bars, 14:30, at 40 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndiePunkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
40 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
14:30
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-46, 60-70 and 74-75, and 4 more places -- 62% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 40 BPM
WHO WAS IN MY ROOM LAST NIGHT? · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 47, 55, 59, 71, 79, 99 and 2 more.

LOOP · 40 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 9 sections: 77 keep time, 8 are fills, 29 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-110.

PART S1
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Who Was in My Room Last Night??

40 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Who Was in My Room Last Night? hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 14:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Who Was in My Room Last Night??

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 47, 55, 59, 71, 79, 99 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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